Course: Performance Mediality

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Course title Performance Mediality
Course code KDU/PME
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 7
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bulandrová Amálie, Mgr. et Mgr.
  • Kubartová Eliška, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Bernátek Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1-2. Media Theories of Performance: Media as a Means and as an Environment 3-4. The Modernist Constitution of Theatre's Specificity 5. Definitions of Theatrical Performance: The So-Called Media Conditions 6. Liveness and the Collapse of Media Essentialism 7-8. Aesthetic Concepts of Intermediality and Performance: Intermedial Artistic Experiments 9. Music and Sound in Performance: The Concept of Performance in the Context of Sound Studies 10. The Role of the Apparatus (Dispositif), Scopic Regimes in Theatrical Performance, and Reception Codes 11-12. Cultural and Institutional Concepts of Intermediality and Media Change: Remediation 13. Concluding Session

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Group work
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the issue of the mediality of theatrical and cultural performances from the beginnings of Euro-American cultural history to the end of the twentieth century. The course builds on the subjects Staging and Production of Performances in History (Spring Semester) and Theatre and Society in History (Spring Semester).
Upon completing the course, the student will understand theatre as a medium and its specific mediality, including fundamental paradigms such as mimesis, poiesis, catharsis, and aisthesis. They will gain insight into the relationship between staged drama and social drama. The student will also grasp media theories concerning theatre as both a medium and an environment, as well as aesthetic and cultural concepts of intermediality, including embodiment and the phenomenon of liveness within the evolving media landscape.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Student performance

- Attendance (75%) - Homework (reading assigned scholarly and dramatic texts in Czech and English; viewing assigned recordings; listening to assigned audio materials) - Active participation in group discussions - Oral exam Requirements for participation, and course completion are specified in Moodle.
Recommended literature
  • AUSLANDER, Philip. (1999). Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture.. London.
  • BAY-CHENG, Sarah, KATTENBELT, Chiel, LAVENDER, Andy a NELSON, Robin (eds.). (2010). Mapping Intermediality in Performance. Amsterdam.
  • FISCHER-LICHTE, Erika. (2021). Úvod do divadelných a performatívnych štúdií. Bratislava.
  • KATTENBELT, Chiel. Intermediality in Theatre and Performance: Definitions, Perceptions and Medial Relationships. Culture, Language and Representation. Cultural Studies Journal of Universitat Jaume I Vol 7, 2008, p. 19?29..
  • KRTILOVÁ, KateřIna - SVATOŇOVÁ, Kateřina (eds.). (2016). Medienwissenschaft: východiska a aktuální pozice německé filosofie a teorie médií. Praha.
  • MÜLLER, Richard a kol. (2020). Za obrysy média: literatura a medialita. Praha.
  • SZCZEPANIK, P. Nová filmová historie. Praha: Hermann a synové 2004.
  • WEBER, Samuel. Theatricality as medium. New York. 2004.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Theatre and Performance studies (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Theatre and Performance studies (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter